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You know best what you want to see on your home feed. No algorithms or ads to waste your time. Follow anyone across any Mastodon server from a single account and receive their posts in […]
“Centralized platforms like Facebook and Twitter currently have full power to control their users’ information and can sell their data, including location and other personal information to the highest bidder. Decentralization technology allows the control […]
If I have to choose between following a user profile versus an interest group/topic, I always go for the latter as it is usually more relevant and interesting. It is true too that so many […]
The use of the hashtag as a Twitter tool to denote a specific topic in order for the masses to follow along—which was first suggested (in a Tweet, naturally) by Silicon Valley regular and early […]
Gen Z internet use is on the rise, but the rate at which teens use Facebook is rapidly declining. A Pew Research Center study on teens, technology and social media found that only 32% of […]
Twenty years ago, pretty much nobody had heard of “social media.” Today, there’s almost no way you can escape it. Despite this, Americans are increasingly disenchanted with these platforms—and many view them as corrosive to […]
The interesting part of this, and probably why they did not just go for adopting ActivityPub or SSB (some of these people are actually involved) is because they are trying to also address some shortcomings […]
Lemmy is an open source alternative to Reddit, which has similar voting up and down of posts, threaded discussions about posts, and thriving communities. But there are some key differences from Reddit, Facebook, and such […]
Dismissing what he called a “blunderbuss of objections” by the company, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the case can proceed as a class action on behalf of small business owners and individuals […]
“After being hacked, I’ve lived without Facebook and Twitter for four years, and life has been fantastic,” German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said at a press conference in Paris. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, […]